Data Science Jobs in Edinburgh

Data Science
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 42 100
Rank change year-on-year -2 +58 -2
Permanent jobs citing Data Science 44 77 47
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 5.01% 5.20% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.15% 5.80% 2.44%
Number of salaries quoted 18 37 31
10th Percentile £44,250 £46,306 £51,833
25th Percentile £45,313 £58,664 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% +3.64%
75th Percentile £83,738 £72,433 £78,232
90th Percentile £88,496 £83,016 £87,419
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £69,750 £67,500
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +14.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 854 1,327 1,926
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 97.27% 89.54% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 371 931 1,117
10th Percentile £26,250 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,433 £77,715
90th Percentile £98,474 £98,474 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -0.95% -8.70% +4.55%

Data Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Science in Edinburgh.

Salary trend for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Science in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Data Science in Edinburgh

Data Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Apache
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.27%) SPSS
Cloud Services
1 12 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 11 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (15.91%) Snowflake
4 6 (13.64%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
6 2 (4.55%) dbt
6 2 (4.55%) GCP
7 1 (2.27%) Azure
7 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (43.18%) Tableau
2 12 (27.27%) Power BI
3 7 (15.91%) Big Data
4 3 (6.82%) Data Lake
5 2 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.55%) Looker
5 2 (4.55%) MongoDB
5 2 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.64%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
General
1 26 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 23 (52.27%) Finance
3 15 (34.09%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (29.55%) Banking
5 7 (15.91%) Legal
6 5 (11.36%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.55%) Automotive
7 2 (4.55%) Front Office
7 2 (4.55%) Marketing
7 2 (4.55%) Retail
7 2 (4.55%) Retail Banking
7 2 (4.55%) Social Science
7 2 (4.55%) Tech for Good
7 2 (4.55%) Wholesale Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Games
Job Titles
1 14 (31.82%) Data Scientist
2 11 (25.00%) Senior
3 6 (13.64%) Lead
3 6 (13.64%) Senior Data Scientist
4 5 (11.36%) Data Manager
5 4 (9.09%) Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 4 (9.09%) Senior Manager
6 3 (6.82%) Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Data Science Graduate
6 3 (6.82%) Graduate
6 3 (6.82%) Product Owner
7 2 (4.55%) Audit Manager
7 2 (4.55%) Consultant
7 2 (4.55%) Data Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Data Science Leader
7 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Informatica Engineer
7 2 (4.55%) Lead Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.82%) Kafka
1 3 (6.82%) scikit-learn
2 2 (4.55%) FastAPI
2 2 (4.55%) Google JAX
2 2 (4.55%) JAX
2 2 (4.55%) NumPy
2 2 (4.55%) PyTorch
2 2 (4.55%) React
2 2 (4.55%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.27%) LangChain
3 1 (2.27%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Algorithms
2 3 (6.82%) Credit Risk
2 3 (6.82%) Learning Management System
2 3 (6.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.55%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.09%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (68.18%) Analytics
2 22 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 20 (45.45%) Machine Learning
4 17 (38.64%) Artificial Intelligence
5 15 (34.09%) Business Intelligence
6 14 (31.82%) Data Visualisation
7 13 (29.55%) Decision-Making
8 11 (25.00%) Agile
9 10 (22.73%) Business Strategy
10 9 (20.45%) Data Analysis
10 9 (20.45%) Data Engineering
11 8 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
11 8 (18.18%) Mathematics
12 7 (15.91%) Risk Management
12 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
12 7 (15.91%) Statistical Analysis
12 7 (15.91%) Statistical Modelling
12 7 (15.91%) Storytelling
13 6 (13.64%) Data Analytics
13 6 (13.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (54.55%) Python
2 17 (38.64%) SQL
3 3 (6.82%) R
4 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Degree
2 9 (20.45%) Master's Degree
3 7 (15.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (6.82%) QA
3 2 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 2 (4.55%) GDPR
3 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.55%) Informatica
2 2 (4.55%) Oracle